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Table of Contents: “…Lewis and Joy Davidman : "Never have I loved her more than since she was struck down" -- John Bayley and Irish Murdoch : "In widowhood you lose not only your loved one but much of yourself" -- Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon : "Art is created against death" -- Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne : "Life changes in the instant" -- Calvin Trillin and Alice Stewart Trillin : "I wrote everything for Alice" -- "It is possible to be bereft and not bereft simultaneously."…”
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Table of Contents: “…The city of robots / Umberto Eco -- from David Hockney by David Hockney / David Hockney -- Los Angeles : the know-how city / Jan Morris -- from The sexual outlaw / John Rechy -- Eureka! / John Gregory Dunne -- from Straight life / Art Pepper -- from Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees ; L.A. glows / Lawrence Weschler -- Preface and postscript to Chinatown / Robert Towne -- August, Los Angeles, lullaby / Carol Muske -- Angel baby blues / Wanda Coleman -- from Anywhere but here / Mona Simpson -- Night song of the Los Angeles Basin / Gary Snyder -- from Golden days / Carolyn See -- from I was looking for a street / Charles Willeford -- Going up in L.A. / Rubén Martínez -- from The control of nature / John McPhee -- from City of quartz / Mike Davis --…”